Friday, January 20, 2012

Learning and memory: Becoming a habit: a role for NMDA receptors

Learning and memory: Becoming a habit: a role for NMDA receptors

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 13, 72 (2012). doi:10.1038/nrn3184

Author: Katherine Whalley

The actions of dopamine in the basal ganglia are important for the transformation of a repeated action into an automated habit; however, the precise mechanisms by which dopamine is modulated during habit learning are unclear. Here, the authors show that mice in which NMDAR1 is






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